Graphic Art Design category: 1547 books
by David Lowenthal
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Is unity of knowledge possible? Is it desirable? Two rival visions clash. One seeks a single way of explaining everything known and knowable about ourselves and the universe. The other champions diverse modes of understanding served by disparate kinds of evidence. Contrary views pit science against...
by Joseph Aronson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
This book contains a treatise on French furniture from the renaissance to the Empire style. A fascinating book full of detailed photographs and interesting information, this text will greatly to appeal to anyone with an interest in French furniture and is sure to be of considerable value to collectors...
The Furniture Doctor
A Guide to the Care, Repair, and Refinishing of Furniture
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
The best-selling guide to keeping furniture in the finest and most beautiful condition, with complete information on proper repair and refinishing techniques from the legendary expert on antiques and their restoration.
B & W photographs throughout
Women & Recovery: Sex, Sobriety, & Stepping Up
Practical Suggestions for Quality Living in Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
In Women and Recovery: Sex, Sobriety and Stepping Up, Ann D. Clark, Ph.D, provides readers with a no-nonsense, step-by-step guide to giving up anything. Clark explains how to conquer addictions using a lighthearted approach. Addressing such problems as substance abuse, overeating, shopping, or simply...
Fashion Embroidery
Embroidery Techniques and Inspiration for Haute-Couture Clothing
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
This practical step-by-step guide to haute couture embroidery covers everything from machine and hand stitching, to tambour beading, goldwork and monogramming.
Whether you are interested in adding monogrammed initials to your favourite bathrobe, stitching a flower on your favourite jacket,...
Laboratory Lifestyles
The Construction of Scientific Fictions
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
A generously illustrated examination of the boom in luxurious, resort-style scientific laboratories and how this affects scientists' work.
The past decade has seen an extraordinary laboratory-building boom. This new crop of laboratories features spectacular architecture and resort-like amenities....
Fashioning Identity
Status Ambivalence in Contemporary Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
We dress to communicate who we are, or who we would like others to think we are, telling seductive fashion narratives through our adornment. Yet, today, fashion has been democratized through high-low collaborations, social media and real-time fashion mediation, complicating the basic dynamic of identity...
Being Gorgeous
Feminism, Sexuality and the Pleasures of the Visual
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Being Gorgeous explores the ways in which extravagance, flamboyance and dressing up can open up possibilities for women to play around anarchically with familiar stereotypical tropes of femininity. This is protest through play – a pleasurable misbehaviour that reflects a feminism for the twenty-first...
by Anon
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Contained within this antique book is a fascinating analysis of Tudor Gothic Furniture. A book that will be of considerable value to those with an interest in historical furniture, this text comes complete with a plethora of exquisite illustrations and fascinating information – one not to be missed...
by Anon
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
This book contains a concise yet comprehensive treatise on the furniture popular during the Tudor renaissance period - from 1509 to 1603. Complete with exquisite illustrations and fascinating information on the subject, this antique text is sure to be of value to those with an interest in historical...
The Rag Trade
The People Who Made Our Clothes
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
This book is about people who worked in the rag trade in the nineteenth century – dressmakers and milliners, tailors, two shoemakers, a framework knitter, a family of corset manufacturers and a lace maker. It deals with the trades and their products, but also with the day-to-day lives of the protagonists,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Eighteenth-century fashion was cosmopolitan and varied. Whilst the wildly extravagant and colorful elite fashions parodied in contemporary satire had significant influence on wider dress habits, more austere garments produced in darker fabrics also reflected the ascendancy of a puritan middle class...
by Miss Fiona Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The story of tweed is tied to a series of social, economic and cultural shifts that have molded its development. This book considers the historical factors that helped to shape the design characteristics and social meanings of the group of fabrics that we call tweed, from their emergence in the 1820s...
by Klaus Carl
Language: French
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: French
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Qu’y-a-t-il de plus banal qu’une paire de chaussures ? Pourtant, aujourd’hui encore, la moitié de l’humanité n’en connaît pas l’usage. Dans un monde où la chaussure est devenue un objet de consommation, comment oublier que nos arrière-grands-parents l’utilisaient pour les cérémonies...